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23 Jun 2024 · "Janet Planet" follows a few months in the lives of Lacy and her mother, with people drifting in and out of Janet’s orbit. In the small pockets of time when Lacy isn’t with Janet, she busies herself with piano lessons and playing with her little stage of small figurines.
5 hari yang lalu · “Janet Planet,” written and directed by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker, rotates around the mother-daughter relationship between Janet and 11-year-old Lacy. It’s complicated, loving, and as sweet and sour as those bonds can be.
20 Jun 2024 · The genius of “Janet Planet,” Baker’s debut as a feature writer-director, is how flawlessly it renders what it’s like to spend the summer being 11 at your home in the woods, when your ...
In rural Western Massachusetts, 11-year-old Lacy spends the summer of 1991 at home, enthralled by her own imagination and the attention of her mother, Janet. As the months pass, three visitors enter their orbit, all captivated by Janet and her spellbinding nature.
1 Jul 2024 · Written and directed by a female filmmaker, Janet Planetcenters around female leads Lacy and Janet. Its central preoccupation—of a young girl’s changing relationship with her mother—also focuses on themes unique to women and girls.
21 Jun 2024 · Playwright Annie Baker’s debut film 'Janet Planet' explores a mother-daughter relationship fraught with possessiveness
19 Jun 2024 · NEW YORK (AP) — The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker has been hailed as one of the preeminent voices of her generation, but the movies have long lingered in her mind and in her work. In her play, “The Flick,” a trio of workers clean up between showings at a smalltown arthouse theater.
